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GOOD FIELD FOR THE LOUISVILLE CUP Be Frank, Exterminator and Cudgel Expected from the East for tho Big- Race. LOUISVILLE, Ky., October 28. With better luck as regards weather and track conditions Churchill Downs may reasonably hope for better results as regards a field for the renewal on November 1 of the Louisville Cup than Latonia had for the renewal of the Latonia Cup. The Latonia Cup, because of the almost unprecedentedly heavy condition of the track, drew a field of only four horses Exterminator,. Be Frank. Legal and Kingozi. The Louisville Cup, which will be a ,000 added race at two miles, has been a Kentucky autumn feature since 1013, when it was run at Douglas Park for the first time and won by Clubs, with Melton Street second and Manager Mack third. It has since been Avon by Great Britain, the best horse, probably, The Commoner sent to the races in the course of his long term of stud service in Tennessee and a long distance runner that distinguished himself in Canada as well as in the United States; Hodge, another product of Tennessees fast declining thoroughbred breeding Industry; Star Hawk, a foreign-bred son of Sunstar and a Lawrence Realization Stakes winner; Embroidery, the best Long distance running mare that has come out of Virginia in a decade, and El Rey. It is not improbable that this years renewal of the Louisville Cup will attract Cornelius M. Garrisons Be Frank, Willis Sharpe Kilmers Exterminator, J. W. Parrishs Midway, J. S. Hawkins Stockwell, James W. McClellands Sailor, Commander J. K. L. Ross Cudgel, Harry Payne Whitneys Vexatious and Williams Brothers Legal. There Is a possibility that one or two others may get to the post. These horses, however, represent the best of the Cnp eligibles ready for the colors. However, for a race that is run so late in the year the Cup bids fair to do astonishingly well. First and foremost among the prospective starters in the public estimation just now is Be Frank, the hero of the Latonia Cup. When he defeated Exterminator in the Latonia Cup Be Frank demonstrated that he was a horse of the highest stamina. He raced with Exterminator, a capital mudlark, through the heaviest going ever, and had the great McGee gelding at his mercy throughout the last three-quarters of a mile. It is clear that Be Frank lias recovered the form that enabled him to win the Latonia Derby in June in a good class field, although it seemed in July, nnd as late . as September, when the horses were racing at Havre de Grace, that the big -bay gelding had gone off hopelessly. " Be "Frank Is rated now the stoutest long distance running three-year-old in the west, and the west feels that it owns him In spite of his allegiance to the racing establishment of Cornelius M. Garrison, a broker of New York City, because he has scored his greatest triumphs on the soil of Kentucky. Be Frank is Kentucky-bred, by the way. He was sired by Sir John Johnson while that great son of Isidor and La Tosca II. was standing temporarily at the Hamburg Place stud in Fayette County. Moreover, Be Frank is descended in the female line from the celebrated Maggie B. B., which sent Iroquois to England to win the Epsom Derby of 1S81 and founded in the Blue Grass State the stoutest family of which the American Stud Book boasts. SURE EXTERMINATOR WILL START. There was some talk last week of Exterminators not returning to Kentucky for the Louisville Cup, but it is definitely understood now that the son of McGee and Proud Duchess will make another trip wost to start in this race. Exterminator has done brilliantly this year. Beaten In the 0,000 Kentucky Handicap last spring by Midway and Beaver-kill because he was asked to make impossible concessions in weight to those capable long distance runners, the rangy McGee gelding went to Saratoga in August, and shouldered 126 pounds to Purchases 116 and trimmed that brilliant three-year-old in the Saratoga Cup. Moreover, iu the running of the Cup Exterminator equaled the Saratoga record for one mile and three-quarters 2:58 a record that had stood since 1903, in spite of the fact that the going was heavy. Midway, hero of the Kentucky Handicap of last spring, was not ready for a bruising effort on a heavy track in the Latonia Cup last Saturday, and he was scratched to wait for the Louisville Cup. The backwardness of Midway, which is a Kentucky-bred son of Ballot and Thirty-third, and :i long distance runner of pronounced ability, was due to an accident. In a race at Latonia in June one of his feet was injured by the plate of another horse. This necessitated his remaining quiet through the summer. But he had plenty of work before J. S. Ward brought him from Laurel to Latonia. and he would have started in the Cup against Be Frank and Exterminator if the going had been fast. Mr. Ward doe.s not anticipate difficulty in getting a first-rate finish on his preparation for the Louisville Cup. Cudgel will probably come west for the Louisville Cup. Cudgel is an unusual Broomstick in that he will not extend himself freely on a slow or cuppy track, and Commander Ross nnd his trainer. H. G. Bedwell, believe that he will like the Churchill Downs course better even than he will like the Pimlico track. Trouble and expense are nothing to Commander Ross when there is a chance that one of his horses may win a race that will enhance his reputation and bring fame to the stable. And inasmuch as Cudgel is intended for service at the Ross nursery Yarrow Brae in Howard County, Maryland, the Canadian turfman is anxious to have him win as many long distance races as possible this year and next. Cudgel has not, so far, won a race at a greater distance than one mile and a quarter.
